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Beautiful you…or is it Beauty Full you? I’ll take both. Won’t you? I am beautiful and I am beauty. Full. From the bottom of my feet to the top of my head. It is there. Thriving. Expressing. Living.

I can not will it away. I can not wash it away. I can not talk it away. It is there, always has been and always will be. Okay so it took a long time for me to understand it, embrace it and believe it. And now it is who I am. Without question.

What about you? Beauty is part of everyone from birth. It resonates in our bones, our flesh, our mind. It is part of who we are. Whether we like it or not, it is in our DNA.

It’s what we do with it that either helps it grow or hinders it hibernate. Just like a seed….it is going to be a plant. When it is cared for and watered and given sunshine and protection from bad weather… it will be the plant it is meant to be. A flower, or a tree or a vine or even a weed. The seed will become.

And so will you. When you are taken care of, drink plenty of water, take in healthy foods, get lots of sunshine and protected from evil… you will be the woman you were meant to be. A teacher, or a manager or a clerk, or even a nurse. You will become.

How amazing is that?! To not have to wonder anymore if you are beautiful. But to know. Already… since day one, since breath one, heck….since the moment you were conceived you were beautiful. You don’t have to do anything, you don’t have to act a certain way, you don’t have to dress a certain way.

You just are. Oh BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTY FULL YOU.

xoxo

Your God Girl,

Tracy

Here I am again writing about my age, getting older and it’s impact, especially on our perception of beauty. One of the very first posts I wrote was on retrospect a kind of ranty post about how I have earned the right to be who I am as I age. This all started as it does because of an insomnia fueled evening spent too long on social media. Filters, crops, edits. Likes, loves. It got me thinking. As we get older is beauty really authentic or filtered. How do you define it? What does it look like? Feel like? What does beauty and aging mean?

Knowing I had a blog post due I asked.

The irony is as I have talked to others I wasn’t too far off from my original post.

Here are the amazing words of the people in my life:

“It equates denial.”

“It’s confidence, kindness. I’ve earned every wrinkle and silver strand of hair just by living life. I feel pretty lucky to be alive.”

“Being confident in who I am and who God made me to be. Aging is great when you realize through the years that those things that make you NOT look like everyone else, are the things that make you uniquely you, and that’s where true beauty is found.”

“I think we live in a pretty awesome time to be “aging” women. When I hit 40, I felt so much more free. And as I get closer to 50, I feel my most amazing, healthy, radiant, and yes beautiful. Now it’s about ME and I finally really, truly don’t care what people think. Plus we have some awesome role models.”

Beauty as you get older is truly relative. When people say it’s all about your attitude I’m here to say I think I finally get it.

At the end of the day whatever makes you happy, brings joy to your life, gives you that spark isn’t that what it’s really all about?

I truly look forward to more adventures. Hopefully becoming a Grandma. Even if it’s of the four legged variety. Beautiful silver hair like my Great Grandmother Mary had. Less makeup or more. Finding my favorite outfit and signature perfume.

Those are the legacies my Grandmothers gave me.

Either way.

Every wrinkle

Piece of hair glitter

They are our mile markers of a life lived.

Much love Mommas,

<3 Caprise